Posted on 10/27/2014 9:00:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a column ostensibly explaining why American moderates struggle in the Republican Party, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen last year wrote: “People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York – a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts – but not all – of America.”
If the thought of New York’s first family’s interracial marriage makes many Republicans (and apparently Cohen) gag, imagine how many sick bags they are filling over Ebola. The arrival of the virus in the United States has crystallised a range of conservative anxieties: immigration, race, terrorism, science, big government, Barack Obama – you name it. For the right, Ebola is not just a disease, it is a metaphor for some of the things they don’t understand and many of the things they loathe.
Conservative éminence grise Phyllis Schlafly believes Obama is allowing it into the country deliberately. “Obama doesn’t want America to believe that we’re exceptional,” she said. “He wants us to be just like everybody else and, if Africa is suffering from Ebola, we ought to join the group and be suffering from it, too.”
Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh claims liberals won’t impose a travel ban from infected areas because Ebola is “payback” for slavery....
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
A deranged Fat Albert
This goof-ball is all over The Guardian comment section. A non-stop race card player.
At the county trash dump they say “a waste is a terrible thing to mind.”
And a self-described communist, to boot.
Spreading disease is only fair and makes us more equal...
So, uh, if homosexuality is genetic, how did Chirlane go against her unchangeable biohardwired it aint me, God made me dis way nature and marry the German guy who changed his name to an Italian one?
Funny, I thought genes were immutable.
At least that’s what NAMBLA and Lambda project people say.
Cuz if they ain’t, then why would we say that a sexual predilection is somehow deserving of civil rights?
I thought they said homosexuals were born that way, it was not a choice?
Was she faking it then, or is she faking it now. Or are they all full of sh!t.
and leftists who want to wipe out much of humanity are the ones who write crap like this.
If I started right now, I could immediately self quarantine for 3 months without too much hassle. As it is, I haven’t left the yard since Friday.
Yeah, us rednecks are doomed. /s
Whatta maroon.
Of course, the Negroes that lived cheek-by-jowl with them were staunch Republicans. Thus it was the Democrat Party that enforced Jim Crow and took every conceivable means to suppress the black vote. KKK? No Republicans allowed!
Leftist history, as blathered by this jerk, is completely backwards ... and obviously the history that gets air in Britain.
Is he actually implying that, if the Swedish Bikini Team had dragged Ebola in, we’d all just be happy as hell about it?
Gee, another out f context misquote of what Rush said.
I’m shocked.
These people are dangerous.
“cultural changes that have enveloped parts – but not all – of America”
Especially the parts near the exit, if you know what I mean...
Yes.
LUG (Lesbian Until Graduation) a possibility, with the recidivism option. BTW, Big Mamma DeBlasio's assistant lives with a convicted murderer who violates his parole with impunity. Mayor DeBlasio says, "None'o'my business."
It’s not rednecks but urban leftists who seem to be in the greatest denial, here. What the heck is wrong with these people? They see concern about infection and an attempt to prevent it, then project racism. Apparently, if we were as pure as they are, we’d just trot all over town after coming back from an Ebola infected area, safe in the knowledge that we’re entirely too good to catch this African disease. Who’s the real racist here?
There’s the problem right there.
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